I don't have permission?

[Starhorsepax]

I'm trying to get Prey anti theft working on my macbook. It runs manual and the site says it checks out but a test run didn't seem to work. So I checked console and found:
com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10a740.cron[2330]) Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access

Then as I go poking thru console for further clues I notice that I'm denied access to certain logs. Even normal stuff like Itunes crash and such.
I'm logged in as admin and I don't recall ever noticing this on my old imac running Panther. This one is running Leopard 10.5.8 and I'm still pretty new to it.
Am I missing something here? Why am I denied access? I know it protects certain core systems but console logs?

 

[Hal Itosis]

I'm trying to get Prey anti theft working on my macbook. It runs manual and the site says it checks out but a test run didn't seem to work. So I checked console and found:
com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10a740.cron[2330]) Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access

Then as I go poking thru console for further clues I notice that I'm denied access to certain logs. Even normal stuff like Itunes crash and such.
I'm logged in as admin and I don't recall ever noticing this on my old imac running Panther. This one is running Leopard 10.5.8 and I'm still pretty new to it.
Am I missing something here? Why am I denied access? I know it protects certain core systems but console logs?

As far as fixing Prey goes: http://groups.google.com/group/prey-security

As far as logs & permissions go: have you repaired permissions yet?

Else, find the file in question (be it in /Library/Logs or /var/log) and check the perms with Terminal. If necessary, they could be tweaked.

E.g., sudo chmod g+r /var/log/secure.log

 

[Starhorsepax]

Got prey working.

Prey is working (it's impressive too).

I haven't tried the terminal method yet but the disk utility method doesn't work correctly. I read there was a bug in Leopard that gave it trouble fixing certain permissions, perhaps this is it.

Oddly I've also noticed the admin account is the glitchy one-a fact I wasn't sure of until I stopped using it for awhile...